Archive
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Life’s irreducible structure: Can life evolve from chemicals?
The Cartesian ghost in the machine: The origins of the mind-body problem
Debugging the genetic program: The myth of DNA as the blueprint of life
Good Philosophy has skin in the game
René Descartes on critical thinking and avoiding error in judgments
My Top Goodreads for the week
Photograph: I know why the “Sunbird” sings
Italian fascist dictator, Mussolini, on being a consistent moral relativist
Life is Context: The Nature of Gene Regulation
Evolution’s time problem – New ways of regulating existing genes
Evolution’s time problem – waiting for genetic change
Evolution’s search problem -Can evolution navigate protein space?
Evolution’s search problem – Searching through protein sequence space for genetic novelty Part 2
Evolution’s search problem – searching through protein sequence space for genetic novelty Part 1
Stephen Jay Gould on the meaning of life in an evolved world
Blackness as an ethical symbol
Will Durant on the pleasure of philosophy
Is morality an evolutionary instinct?
Waiting for a coevolving pair of mutations – problems with evolution
The state of fatherhood in South Africa
Hot wings and Jesus – In search of soul food?
Carthage must be rebuilt: Thabo Mbeki’s timeless advice to students of the African continent
What does embryology say about when life begins?
Cosmologists Vilenkin and Mithani on whether the universe had a beginning
The link between design, meaning and ethics
Should science be relied upon absolutely as it is inherently objective in its claim to truth?
The Economist on the Industrialisation of Africa
What went wrong with Africa – Origins of the debt crisis
What went wrong with Africa – The Economic Colonial Heritage
An imaginary dialogue between Socrates and Darwin on evolutionary ethics
Therefore the universe has a cause
Is the universe eternal or is it created? A scientific survey
I don’t need God to be good?
The Chemistry behind a good braai
Thoughts on Zapiro’s Assisted Suicide Cartoon
The Limits of science – verification and falsifiability
Love is love- but what is love? And where is it from?
Is Neil deGrasse’s take on design, intelligent?
